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Sticking to banking basics yields golden opportunity for Wells Fargo to expand
AP Business WriterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ With its iconic stagecoach, Wells Fargo & Co. has evoked images of the wild West throughout its 156-year history. Now it's finally expanding east of the Mississippi with a $12.2 billion acquisition of Wachovia Corp., a golden...Tags: Countrywide Financial Corp., Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Banking, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Wachovia Corp.
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Obama proposes tax breaks, loans for small business; McCain wants to halt retiree stock sales
AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) _ John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race for the White House. McCain, lagging in the...Tags: $700 Billion Bank Bailout, John McCain, Laws, The White House, Unemployment
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Jenne ducks spotlight in pension battle
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFelon Ken Jenne still wants his estimated $134,500-a-year state pension, and the former Broward Sheriff and political powerhouse might get it without having to show his face in a courtroom. A two-day hearing set for next week has been cancelled,......Tags: Lawyers, Wages and Pensions, Interior Policy, Prisons, Corporate Crime
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Seniors say need for change drives them, but McCain or Obama could deliver it
Associated Press WriterTHE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) _ The town squares here reliably fill at the same time every day as retirees pile in for singing and dancing. Restaurants offer the same early-bird specials on the same days each week, and patrons wake up to swallow the same...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Election Day, Population, Colleges and Universities, Public Relations
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25 Days to the Election: A look at the race for 2008 on Friday
IN THE HEADLINES Obama proposes tax breaks, loans for small business; McCain wants to halt retiree stock sales ... McCain hammers Obama in ad over his links to 1960s radical ... Obama says McCain stokes anger and division to 'rile up' people ... Alaska...Tags: Weather Underground, Laws, Stocks, Executive Branch, Barack Obama
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McCain proposes suspending mandatory stock sales
Associated Press WriterJohn McCain proposed Friday that the elderly be allowed to hang on to the stocks in their retirement funds and not be forced to sell them in a bad market. The Republican presidential candidate would suspend requirements that people start selling off...Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, Sales
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Lawmakers, rail board address LIRR disability reforms
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comFederal lawmakers from New York met with members of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board Friday and hammered out a "consensus" for several reforms in the embattled agency, including possibly "re-evaluating" the legitimacy of Long Island Rail Road retirees...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Southampton, Long Island, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Transportation
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Sources: Gov expected to sign pension-reform bill
sandra.peddie@newsday.comA landmark pension reform bill that closes the loopholes allowing some public employees to collect six-figure salaries on top of six-figure pensions is expected to signed into law Friday by Gov. David Paterson, sources said. The bill, which was...Tags: Lawyers, Fires, Wages and Pensions, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Laws
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Obama is in support of workers
I take great exception to the recent letter that said unions were ''a necessary evil.'' Workers formed unions to enable them to ''work to live,'' not ''live to work!'' We have 40 hour workweeks, eight-hour workdays, retirement plans, and many other...Tags: John McCain, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Employees
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Amid financial crisis, states put prison and school construction on hold, cut spending
Associated Press WriterWith the economy in a slide and the credit markets seized up, states are slashing budgets, eliminating jobs, putting major construction projects on hold and nervously waiting to see whether their shriveled pension funds recover. They are also weighing...Tags: Securities, Wages and Pensions, Executive Branch, Timothy M. Kaine, Freddie Mac
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Disability scandal at nation's largest railroad yields investigations, subpoenas
Associated Press WriterMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) _ Like many commuters, Ron Marino is incredulous about revelations that nearly every employee who asked for disability benefits after retiring from the nation's largest commuter railroad was granted them. But Marino isn't the only...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Employers, Transportation, Helena Williams, Health and Safety at Work
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Quarry inspires deep interest from fans
Chicago Tribune reporterArmed with a chisel and a hammer, Rich Bostrom channeled Fred Flintstone as he tapped gently on a giant rock at the bottom of the Thornton Quarry. "This is interesting," said Bostrom, 50, of Homewood, who tossed a few rocks into his orange bucket as...Tags: Physiology, Natural Science, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure
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